Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak by Joe Simpson, Maurice Herzog

The mesmerizing account, through the chief of the French excursion, of the 1st conquest of Annapurna - at the moment, and at greater than 8000 metres, the top mountain ever climbed. it's a tale of breathtaking braveness and backbone opposed to appalling odds. In documents of mountain climbing, in stories of human endeavour, there's not anything so unforgettable because the account of the descent through the positive yet frost-bitten males, after the monsoon had damaged, in the course of the flooded valleys of Nepal.

As good as an creation via Joe Simpson, this re-creation contains sixteen pages of photos, which supply a awesome visible list of this mythical day trip.

In this 12th publication of the masterful Redwall epic, storyteller Brian Jacques is going again in time to the times sooner than Redwall, revealing with dramatic poignancy the legend of the 1st of the outstanding Redwall warriors--Luke, father of Martin.

Joined by way of Trimp the Hedgehog, Dinny Foremole, and Gonff--the ever-mischievous Prince of Mousethieves--it is that legend Martin hopes to find while he embarks on a dangerous trip to the northland shore, the place his father deserted him as a toddler. There, in the carcass of a very good pink ship--broken in part and wedged excessive up among pillars of stone--he eventually uncovers what he has been trying to find: the real tale of the evil pirate stoat, Vilu Daskar, and the valiant warrior who pursued him relentlessly over the excessive seas, looking to spoil Vilu in any respect expenditures, whether it intended deserting his merely son.

When Simon and Patricia bump into a central authority scientist checking out a weapon of mass destruction, the Saint makes a decision to place a cease to it. but if the Saint's arch-nemesis Rayt Marius turns up, the Saint's plans move off beam, top considered one of his neighbors to make the final word sacrifice.

The Saint is on vacation in Naples whilst a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English vacationer has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli—provoking the paunchy person so named to set his hulking henchman at the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and shortly the confrontation is all yet forgotten…until the next morning’s newspaper headlines exhibit that the Englishman has been murdered.

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SURLY CUSTOMERS (5) CR 1/3 XP 135 each Human warrior 1 (use the statistics for a Chelish Citizens’ Group thug on page 11) hp 10 each VENDALFEK CR 2 XP 600 Male faerie dragon (Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 91) hp 22 Vendalfek 34 Treasure: Vendalfek’s hoard is hidden in the rafters and can be found with a successful DC 25 Perception check. It consists of expensive liqueurs and stolen jewelry worth a total of 585 gp. If the dragon joins the rebellion, he hopes to keep this hoard—if the PCs don’t allow this, the dragon leaves the rebellion and Kintargo in a huff.

It finally went out of business 20 years ago, and Hocum died not long thereafter—the building has remained shut down and something of an eyesore ever since. Rexus can relate the information above if no PC can. In addition, Rexus reveals that once the Fantasmagorium began struggling financially, the Sacred Order of Archivists secretly purchased the building from Hocum to use as its own hidden headquarters. What Rexus doesn’t know is that the order expanded on the basements below, consolidating rooms into large libraries and using stone-shaping magic to expand the lower level into a secret monastery.